IGN: "Wii Music a Hit: We Have Failed"

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BTFeather55 said:

Gnizmo said:

BTFeather55 said:
Yeah, but I don't like to have to pay $50.00 to have to think for myself. And what you're saying, have you ever heard of the social psychological principle of cognitive dissonance?  It basically says that if you are compelled to do something, then you will say that you really enjoy it more because you want to have a justification for why you enjoy something other than admit the truth about it.

I have done experiments on it in fact. It does not in anyway apply here though. At least not in the way you seem to want to apply it. Unfortunately for you the reason people are defending the game is likely because they actually enjoyed the game. Unless the people here are somehow compelled to respond (which they are not) this is just a genuine reflection of their personal views.

Famousringo said:
Wiistian? That's terrible. Even Wiitard was a better word than that.

Try something that actually rolls off the tongue, like Wiipublican or Wiiligious zealot.

I think Wiiastines would be the best. A subtle play on Phillistines. The added a is needed to make the word roll off the tongue though which slightly diminishes the immediate connection. Still I think it conjures the desired imagery and is far less directly insulting than wiitard.

But according to cognitive dissonance, you can convince yourself that you enjoy something, and not even know that you don't enjoy it.  In effect, if you're working at a factory where you have to work at a very boring task like sticking paper clips together all day and you have to do it for very low wages, you will convince yourself that you really enjoy the job rather than admit that you hate it because by believing you enjoy it, you are fulfilling your own feelings of self worth.

Wiistian is the best word because it rhymes with Christian and Nintendo fans that say that Wii games can do know wrong are the Nintendo version of Christians.  Most people don't know the word Philistines, but everybody knows the word Christian and what one is talking about when they make a statement about Christians.  Wiiligious Zealot is pretty good, but I was trying to be less insulting than to say "Wii cultist" which I would say is about the same thing.

Back to cognitive dissonance?  Very well, let's see what was said last time on that topic. 
--noname2200 mentioned "confirmation bias", the tendency to see the result you want to see. 
--You responded that the major review sites were negative, so it's not bias, just the truth, and anyway you disliked what you saw on the video.

Now, HappySquirrel had made an earlier post on this subject: 
Now, there are very few games which legitimately have 50% of their review scores above 70% (with 25% above 80%) and also have a lot of scores in the 30%, 40% and 50% range ... Now, when you have reviewers bragging about how they are going to trash a game before they have played it the reason why there is such a discrepancy becomes clear.

The reason he was alluding to is of course that the people choosing to give it low scores were biased -- they refused to give the game a fair chance because they had already decided that it must suck, or were simply subconsciously predisposed to be unfairly harsh on the game. 

Moving on, I presume you're pronouncing "Wiistian" as 'Weestchin', since the ending is the same as in Christian.  But not only does that not sound catchy, it also does not naturally make me think of associating it with the word Christian.  I don't know exactly why, but it's true, and if I am a common example, then it's basically just an in-joke that you have to explain every time you use it in front of new people, which makes it ineffective as an insult or otherwise. 

"Wiilistine", on the other hand, may not have as many people recognize the root word (once explained), but will probably have more people recognize it without assistance IMO, and certainly have more people make the correct association.  (Some people might make the Wii-Christian association, for example, but fail to realize the 'Wii=Jesus' mentality you are trying to imply.  In contrast, I can't think of another way to interpret a Wii-Philistine association.) 

I'd consider "Wii cultist" to be less insulting than "Wiiligious zealot", and also more attractive to people who dislike wordplay.  That might be your best bet, or something similar like "Wii fanatic", etc.  It doesn't really matter, you know, since all your cute little derogatory appellations will utterly fail to catch on, much less have any effect. [edit:  I think others are way ahead of me.]